Carlo Gébler, Esq

Career: author, script writer, film director; memb Aosdána (Eire) 1990; tutor of creative writing HM Prison Maze 1992-95, writer in residence HM Prison Maghaberry 1997-, Br Cncl int writing fell TCD 2004, Arts Cncl writing fell TCD 2006, visiting fell TCD 2009 and 2010; Queens Univ Belfast: lectr in creative writing 2007-, Royal Literary Fund fell 2008 and 2009; Films writer and dir: Croagh Patrick 1977, The Beneficiary 1979, Over Here 1980, Rating Notman 1981, Country & Irish 1982, Two Lives: A Portrait of Francis Stuart 1985, George Barker 1987, August in July (writer) 1990, Plain Tales from Northern Ireland 1993, Life After Death 1994, The Widow's Daughter (writer) 1995, A Little Local Difficulty 1995, Baseball in Irish History 1996, Put to the Test 1998 (winner RTS Award for Best Regnl Documentary 1999), The Suspecting Glance: Conor Cruise O'Brien 2001, Student Life 2001, The Siege (writer and presenter) 2012

Books and Publications: The Eleventh Summer (1985), August In July (1986), Work and Play (1987), Driving through Cuba: An East-West Journey (1988), The TV Genie (1989), Malachy and his Family (1989), Life of a Drum (1990), The Witch That Wasn't (1991), The Glass Curtain: Inside an Ulster Community (1991), The Cure (1994), W9 & Other Lives (1996), How to Murder a Man (1998), Frozen Out (1998), The Base (1999), Father & I (2000), Caught on a Train (2001), August '44 (2003), The Siege of Derry: A History (2005), The Bull Raid (2005), A Good Day for a Dog (2008), My Father's Watch (with Patrick Maguire, 2008), The Dead Eight (2011); Plays How to Murder a Man (1995), The Dance of Death Parts I & II (adaptor, 1998), Ten Rounds (2002), Silhouette (2006), Henry & Harriet (2007), Adolf Gebler, Clarinettist (2008), The Room in the Tower (adaptor, 2009), Charles & Mary (2011), Confessions of a Catastrophist (2012); author of reviews, articles, short stories, travel pieces; contrib to short story collections: Travellers Tales, London Tales, 20 under 35, Winter's Tales 6, New Writing Two, Fatherhood, My Generation, New Writing 9